"Life's a bitch and then you die".
The Washington Post published excerpts of a discussion between high school classmates in 1982 and this exact phrase was credited to the composer, 15-year-old Tony Daniels.

Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net

"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason on the proposed debate between May and Corbyn:
`It would be a discussion between two people who voted Remain and are committed to delivering Brexit, talking to an audience that doesn't have a say on what happens next.'

Ian Hislop on the BH programme this morning, answering the comment that all his Private Eye front covers seem to be about Brexit:
`We did do one on Philip Green but the number of people who subsequently cancelled their subscriptions suggests we should have stuck to Brexit.'

That was tongue in cheek Tiz. Some people forget that PE is a satirical magazine....
He was calling the queen a 'fat old kraut'. Not a million miles away from what he could have been thinking perhaps. Some of us do remember that the royal house name was changed from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor (from "Windsor Castle") in 1917 because of anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I.

Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net

"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

Mystery object reminder..
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Frank Field on the Motability Operations boss who is in line for an extra £1.86 million bonus on top of already "generous" pay...
"...beyond appalling to learn that money that could have been used to improve the lives of disabled people will be lining his pockets instead".

Heard this morning on Today on R4.... An anonymous Tory MP, talking about the men in grey suits who run the Tory Party going into the Leader's office with a large whisky and a loaded gun for 'an honourable exit'. He said that this was dangerous because the mood she is in now she'd drink the whisky and shoot the men in the suits.
Isn't politics interesting!

Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net

"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

Government minister, Alistair Burt, on Twitter: "They never, ever, stop. Votes against them, letters going in late - nothing matters to the ERG. After the apocalypse, all that will be left will be ants and Tory MPs complaining about Europe and their leader."
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IDS, commenting on the possibility of Tory MPs taking sides with Labour to force things along: "How can you expect that to happen with the Labour Party in such disarray?" Could this be the ultimate example of `pot calling the kettle black?

Author Craig Brown this morning saying that the royal family should be boring rather than trying to impress us with their activity...
"George V is a good example, he was a boring stamp collector. His diary for June 28th, 1914 reads:
Morning: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in Sarajevo.
Afternoon: Stamps until tea time.

I heard that and liked it also. This quote keeps coming to mind:- "All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
Enoch Powell - The Economist, 12 Feb 1998.

Stanley Challenger Graham
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net

"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!

I've just got back from her next door's (the poet's ) Christmas lunch.
I enjoyed the 'banter with her super intelligent friends, and I think I held my own. They seem not to be in favour of Brexit and Margaret Thatcher, and I must confess to being a tiny bit provocative.